The outlet will have a large garden centre and a spacious café and bakery
A Home Bargains store
Discount retailer Home Bargains is preparing to open its second store in Barnstaple this weekend as it pushes ahead with ambitious expansion plans.
The branch, at Rose Lane near Tesco, will open its doors on Saturday at 8am and will join the retailer’s existing store at Roundswell.
The new outlet follows a £4m investment by the retailer and has created 76 local jobs, including 64 new recruits to the business.
Robin Bryce, the new ‘Barnstaple 2’ store manager, said: “After serving the local community in our Barnstaple store in Roundswell, I’m thrilled and excited to be opening the new site over at Rose Lane which comes with a large garden centre and a spacious café and bakery.
“Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and hopefully a lot of new ones too.”
The 28,395 sq ft store will sell a range of products, including homeware, health and beauty essentials, sweets, snacks and drinks, and fresh and frozen food.
Mr Bryce added: “Our second Barnstaple location will be a great store for us, and we’re proud to be able to offer local people top-branded goods at exceptionally low prices.”
The news comes just months after Home Bargains’ owner, TJ Morris, reported an eight per cent rise in turnover for the full-year to £4.5bn fuelled by its estate expansion.
Operating profit for the year to the end of June 2025 also rose 13.3 per cent to £492m.
By the end of that period, Home Bargains had 632 retail outlets and said it was planning to increase the number in operation over the following 12 months.
It also added that its ambitions included opening between 800 and 1,000 UK stores in the longer term.
It comes months after Home Bargains unveiled plans to overhaul its network infrastructure with a new partnership. In November, the company appointed Evolve Business Group to deliver a fully managed network solution across its UK store estate in a bid to boost security and operational efficiency.
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